Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 10
The Crow was somewhat alarmed at hearing this, and she thought that, on the whole, it would be safer to leave the roof altogether; so again picking up the Frog in her bill she flew off to the ground below, and alighted near the edge of a well.
Who acts: Frog, it · What happens: alarm, hear, think, be, leave, pick up · To what, where: Crow, this, that, roof, Frog, bill
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crow | det |
| 2 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 alarmed | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whole | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 whole | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 whole | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 safer | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 safer | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 safer | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 safer | cop |
| 22 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 whole | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 safer | csubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 roof | det |
| 26 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | obj |
| 27 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 24 leave | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 picking | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 again | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 picking | advmod |
| 31 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 picking | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Frog | det |
| 34 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 picking | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 bill | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 bill | nmod:poss |
| 37 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 picking | obl |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 flew | nsubj |
| 39 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bill | acl:relcl |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 flew | compound:prt |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 flew | obl |
| 44 | below | below | ADV | _ | 43 ground | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 alighted | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 alighted | cc |
| 47 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 48 | near | near | ADP | _ | 50 edge | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 edge | det |
| 50 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 alighted | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 well | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 well | det |
| 53 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 edge | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the Crow | somewhat property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Frog | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | would | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | the roof | altogether property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pick up | gerund | Frog not said here | the Frog | Frog's bill | again | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic | ||
| 7 | fly off | past | Frog | Frog's bill not said here | the ground | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme to ground=Destination | |||
| 8 | alight | participle | the edge of a well | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | bill | Frog | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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